📋 Quick Takeaways

• $410M+ in major AI funding including Inferact ($150M seed at $800M valuation) and Neurophos ($110M Series A for photonic chips)
• Elon Musk at Davos 2026 predicts AI smarter than any human by end of 2026, warns electrical power is limiting US AI deployment
• OpenAI introduces ads to ChatGPT, surprising Google DeepMind CEO who says Google is thinking through monetization “very carefully”
• Apple reportedly training next-gen Siri on Google Cloud TPUs, signaling major shift in Big Tech compute partnerships
• Anthropic CEO criticizes H200 chip sales to China, comparing decision to “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea”
• Jensen Huang declares AI creates trade jobs rather than destroying employment, with plumber/electrician salaries nearly doubling

🚀 Major AI Funding & Infrastructure Investment

Inferact Raises $150M Seed at $800M Valuation for AI Inference Platform

Breakthrough Funding: The commercial startup behind open-source vLLM secured $150 million in seed funding on January 22, 2026, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners.